THP Articles Spotlight Meeting Student Needs

Teaching for High Potential has numerous article on creating a nurturing and safe environment for gifted and talented students. Explore feature articles and special columns below to uncover advice from THP authors and columnists. Use the issue reference at the end of the title to access the issue (NAGC members only).

In order to develop talent in the STEM fields, educators must recognize the difference between fixed and growth mindsets, and work to encourage the latter.

Summer 2012

Motivating Adolescent Gifted Learners
by Cash, R.

Five curricular principles that will help engage under-motivated GT adolescents.

Fall 2007

Book Review: Finding April Hollow
by Cooper, C.

A motivational book for teachers in providing a stimulating learning environment that challenges and excites.

Fall 2009

Searching for Excellence: An Interview with Josh Waitzkin
by Danielian, J.

Insights about growing up gifted and advice for parents and teachers from Josh Waitzkin, a child chess prodigy and subject of the film Searching for Bobby Fischer. Josh presented his educational ideas during a keynote presentation at 2009's NAGC convention.

Fall 2009

A Secondary Look: Chronically Curious and Driven to Discover
by Dixon, F.

Looking to better society by the encouraging of inventive thinking within today's inquisitive classrooms

What happens when the gifted educator becomes the gifted education advocate.

Spring 2015

Rising Media Tide Builds Support
by Green, N.

When we all pitch in to help the mainstream media publish substantive stories about the state of gifted education, the impact can ripple through our field and through school classrooms, making a meaningful difference for educators and the students they serve.

Spring 2014

Research As Our Guide
by Green, N.

Be a critical consumer, and work to encourage the implementation of researched-based solutions that will inform future practice in support of high-ability learners.

Fall 2013

Highlighting the Worth of Gifted Education
by Olszewski-Kubilius, P

NAGC recognizes that appropriate educational programs, services and policies for gifted and talented children cannot be built upon a weak base of general education. It is time to share what we have.

Summer 2013

Professional School Counselors and Gifted Educators: Working Towards Solutions
by Wood, S.

Counselors use the expanded five “Cs” of the ASCA’s 2007 National Model, created in an effort to help GT learners cope with the stresses of their learning environment by instructing counselors on best practice.

Fall 2007

The Evolving Benefits of Teacher Collaboration by Strnat, M.

Two GT teachers, from different schools, share and collaborate to build a learning community with their classes.

In order to understand the masculine culture we need to ask the question, what is it all about?

Fall 2012

We Teach Great Mindsby Dixon, F.

A correspondence with a former student conjures up and supports the idea that educators of the gifted and talented truly teach great minds.

Fall 2012

The Danger of the Gifted "Dumb Jock"
by Casper, K.

The negative intellectual stereotypes falsely associated with the GT physically gifted student and the ramifications for college studies.

Winter 2011

Social and Emotional Needs: Is There a Curriculum Connection?by Beasley, J,

The social and emotional needs of students can be addressed and nurtured by infusing information into the curriculum.

Fall 2012

Book Review: Light Up Your Child's Mind: Finding a Unique Pathway to Happiness and Success
by Cooper, C.

Renzulli, Reis, and Thompson offer a how to guide for parents to support and understand their gifted child.

Spring 2010

The Sport of the Mind: First Lego®
by Coxon, S.

Looking at how the First Lego League ® competition promotes science, self-efficacy, and confidence in spatially gifted students

Winter 2010

OnLine Social, Emotional, and Parent Resources
by Danielian, J.

Online sites for teachers and parents for locating information on social and emotional issues.

Winter 2009

Searching for Excellence: An Interview with Josh Waitzkin
by Danielian, J.

Insights about growing up gifted and advice for parents and teachers from Josh Waitzkin, a child chess prodigy and subject of the film Searching for Bobby Fischer. Josh presented his educational ideas during a keynote presentation at 2009's NAGC convention.

Looking at ways to meet the needs of three disenfranchised GT groups--rural, African-American males and GLBTT students by making classes safe places to be and learn.

Winter 2012

Mentorship for Gifted High School Students
by Palmer, J.

Using mentorships to design an individualized full high school course of study to match GT students needs.

Fall 2009

Raising Global Awareness through Poetry
by Pennington, L.

Using poetry to channel the social and civic mindedness of GT students in ways that reinforce and allow their empathetic bent to shine through.

Fall 2010

The Role of Teachers when Gifted Students Experience Negative Life Events
by Peterson, J.

Insights into situations and events that produce a negative effect on GT students and how teachers can help.

Winter 2009

Excessive Competition among Gifted High School Students
by Rohde, L.

Identifying the reasons behind competitiveness in GT students and effective classroom strategies to lessen the amount.

Fall 2011

Empowering Students: The PRISM Program
by Rosnick, K.

How students in the PRISM (Performance Enhances Individual Student Magic) students are motivated by their exploration and presentations of their areas of interest.

Summer 2011

What Teachers Should Know and Do About IB Student's Stress Levels
by Shaunessy, E.

Looking at self-reported stressors of IB students during testing and ways to help them work around them.

Spring 2010

Our Powers Combined: Meeting the Needs of the Multicultural Gifted Students through Collaborative Teaching and Counseling
by Walker, S.

Ways to support GT students with high degrees of emotional sensitivity through key activities and collaboration with school counselors and regular education teachers.

Spring 2011

Gifted Program Retrospective: Teachers Look Back at Own Experiences
by Willard-Holt, C.

Female teachers who were gifted students reflect on the emotional pros and cons of their schooling.

Fall 2008

Professional School Counselors and Gifted Educators: Working Towards Solutions
by Wood, S.

Counselors use the expanded five “Cs” of the ASCA’s 2007 National Model, created in an effort to help GT learners cope with the stresses of their learning environment by instructing counselors on best practice.

Fall 2007

STEM, STEMM, or STEAMM?by Schultz, B.

Pushing for more STEM education does not solve many of the problems our gifted and talented students may face, especially in the areas of testing and applying what is learned. Read what GT students have to say about STEM.

Summer 2012

Game Dayby Schultz , B.

Looking at the merits of electronic and board games during drop in Game Days in a local library.

Spring 2008

Benchmark Testing
by Schultz, B.

A father questions the validity of, and stress upon, benchmark testing on his GT son.

Fall 2007

Motivation or Mis-Application: The Accelerated Reader Program and Gifted Learners
by Schultz, B.

The negative effects of tying Accelerated Reader (AR) scores to grades on GT students love of reading.